Organic membranous skeleton of the Precambrian metazoans from Namibia

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 519-522

  Dzik, Jerzy ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; DEFORMATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; SANDSTONE; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BEDDING PLANES; DECOMPOSERS; EVOLUTIONARY EVENTS; INTERNAL HYDRAULIC; MODE OF DEFORMATION; ROCK MATRIX; WALL MATERIALS;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS PRESERVATION;

FOSSILIZATION; INVERTEBRATE; PRECAMBRIAN; TAPHONOMY;

NAMIBIA;

ERNIETTA;

EID: 84874976968     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0519:OMSOTP>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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